![]() He should really stop doing Dave Eggers adaptations. Tom Hanks has been in some shitty films in the past few years, but this one, I believe, is his true nadir. Despite getting the message wrong, The Circle is a compelling dramatic thriller that examines the frightening possibilities that technology can bring. ![]() Additionally, the script does a fairy job at building mystery and intrigue as to a possible sinister plot within the Circle and its new programs. Starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, Karen Gillan, and John Boyega, the cast is pretty good and delivers solid performances. And, the Orwellian hell of constantly being monitored and being forced into the system is treated more as a coming reality and positive than cautionary. Rather than learning a lesson about the importance of a person's right to privacy the heroine (and by extension the filmmakers) double down and call for the complete elimination of privacy. ![]() ![]() After getting a job with a tech company Mae Holland quickly becomes a rising star who pushes for more and more access to people's lives through mobile devices alienating her friends and family along the way. "Privacy was only temporary.and now it's over." Rarely has a film missed the point of its own story as completely as The Circle does. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Styxx and Acheron must put aside their past and learn to trust each other or more will suffer. But things are never what they seem, and Acheron is no longer the last of his line. He will join their fellow gods in hell and nothing is going to stop her. ![]() She owes Acheron a debt that she vows to repay, no matter what it takes. The Atlantean goddess of Wrath and Misery, Bethany was born to right wrongs. Now Styxx has a chance to prove his loyalty to his brother, but only if he's willing to trade his life and future for Acheron's. They've spent more centuries going at each other's throats than protecting their backs. ![]() Now that evil has been unleashed and it is out for revenge.Īs the twin to Acheron, Styxx hasn't always been on his brother's side. Just when you thought doomsday was over.Ĭenturies ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute destruction. The most highly-anticipated novel in the Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series since Acheron is here-the unforgettable story of Styxx, Acheron's twin brother and one of the most powerful beings on earth ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a random shelf pull, absolutely serendipitous – for a number of years I had a long commute several times weekly to take my daughter to her faraway dance school and a goodly number of hours to kill while she was in session, so the public library was my refuge and source of much scope for readerly experimentation – and it (the book) was so brilliantly out there that I came back to the real world most reluctantly. ![]() I stumbled upon Atkinson’s first book, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, quite some time ago. ![]() But there are a few exceptions to that cynical personal rule, and Kate Atkinson is one of them. As most of you know I’m not one to get all worked up about bestselling authors, choosing instead to let the hype die down for at least a decade or two (okay, maybe a generation or two might be more accurate) and then see if the prose holds up once the buzz dies down. ![]() ![]() There's mild play-fighting and some mention of blood. After a day of not eating, Sal, who has diabetes, passes out and ends up in the hospital for an overnight stay. While many characters think Gabi and Sal would make a cute couple, neither are interested in more than friendship. Gabi's newborn brother Iggy fights for his life in the hospital, and there are moments when readers will worry whether little Iggy will make it. Sal, still grieving his mother's death, intentionally and unintentionally brings his Mami Muerta from other universes. Sal and Gabi's universe-breaking adventure is filled with lots of laughs thanks to Sal's sarcasm and wit, but their journey is not without some tears. Sal can cross into other universes and transport items like a dead chicken and his Mami Muerta from other universes into this universe. ![]() Parents need to know that Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, by Carlos Hernandez, is the first book in a duology, a 2020 Pura Belpré Author Award winner, and is in development for a TV show. ![]() ![]() And it's obvious to the naked eye that 'incapable' does not mean 'uninterested'. Still, Linnet finds the gorgeous brute intriguing, with a spark of gentility behind his growl that's worth fanning. ![]() incapable - Piers, Earl of Montague, should welcome a bride-to-be carrying a ready-made, blue-blooded heir.īut Piers isn't fooled by the lady's subterfuge, and though Linnet's devilishly smart and charming with a loveliness that outshines the sun, there will be no wedding of beauty to beast. A brilliant surgeon with a reputation for losing his temper - and a wound believed to have left him. ![]() But now the ton believes Linnet to be with royal child - and therefore unmarriageable - so she might as well make her desperate father happy by consenting to wed a beast. 853 likes, 52 comments - Eloisa James (eloisajamesbooks) on Instagram: The cover of When Beauty Tamed the Beast matches with Penelope Featheringtons. gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James - Julia QuinnMiss Linnet Berry Thrynne is a Beauty. If only her gown hadn't been so fully cut, or she hadn't been caught kissing that prince. When Beauty Tamed The Beast : Number 2 in series. ![]() 'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' - Julia QuinnMiss Linnet Berry Thrynne is a Beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trouble on Tatooine - Game Book (By: Dave Wolverton) The Hunt for Anakin Skywalker - Game Book (By: Dave Wolverton)Ĭapture Arawynne - Game Book (By: Dave Wolverton) The Fury of Darth Maul (By:Ryder Windham) Search for the Lost Jedi (By:Ryder Windham) Compilations and Short Story Collections are listed at the bottom.Point Horror Unleashed & Mutant Point Horror & Nightmare Hall are spinoffs of this series ![]() In no other listing are the books numbered. The Point Horror Series may be missing books or out of order because every online source for these lists these books in a different order and varies on the books included. Thirteen Again (By:Lisa Tuttle, Graham Masterton, Colin Greenland, Stan Nicholls, Philip Gross, David Belbin, Malcolm Rose) Thirteen More Tales of Horror (By:Graham Masterton, Philip Pullman, Colin Greenland, Stan Nicholls, David Belbin, Diane Hoh) Athkins, Sinclair Smith, Ellen Emerson White)įatal Secrets (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) Stine, Judith Bauer Stamper, Lael Littke, Christopher Pike, Caroline B. ![]() ![]() ![]() The challenge: write a poem or poems using political language Congratulations, too, to the longlisted poets whose work impressed the judges: Dale Booton, Spencer Chang, Jack Cooper, Eleanor Dakin, Laura Hankins, Elsie Hayward, Diya Kandhari, Katie Kirkpatrick, Abigail Marett, Marina McCready, Sophie Norton, Tanya Singh, Alexa Stevens, Rena Su, Ellora Sutton and Ploy Techawatanasuk. ![]() Congratulations to the winners, whose poems you can read in the sidebar. Teachers can find a new teaching resource on this theme here. We’ve teamed up with Jeremy Wikeley from the Orwell Youth Prize to challenge young people to explore political language in their poetry, in the 75 th year of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. But because it is often absurd, political language is also ripe for satire. When used for political reasons, language can be dangerous: it can turn anyone you don’t agree with into a sub-human monster. As poets, we know that words are powerful. ![]() ![]() ![]() One doesn’t have to be a teacher to relish his account of how reading the students’ obviously self-authored absence excuses inspired him to create a composition assignment they couldn’t resist: write a note of excuse from Adam to God. The year was 1958 and McCourt was 27, just out of New York University. He begins with his scary first day facing a roomful of 16-year-olds at McKee Vocational and Technical High School on Staten Island, where his job was to teach five English classes per day to teenagers preparing for futures as plumbers, carpenters and auto mechanics. The same dark humor, lyric voice and gift for dialogue are apparent here as McCourt tells the tale of a 30-year career teaching English in New York City high schools. McCourt’s latest memoir focuses on what ’Tis (1999) gave short shrift to: his life as a teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Winter King took me a full month to read-though it is not entirely the book’s fault. ![]() Though distrust and suspicion lingers between them, their passion steadily grows, slowly becoming something more midst tensions between Wintercraig and Summerlea. The second is Khamsin Coruscate, the hated daughter of the king of Summerlea who is forced to marry Wynter to establish peace between their kingdoms. The first is Wynter Atrialan, the king of the Craig, who started a war with the kingdom of Summerlea after the murder of his younger brother and he consumed the powerful Ice Heart, an ancient, deadly magic slowly taking him over. Wilson is an adult paranormal/high fantasy romance novel set in a fantastical world of witches with magic based in nature or seasons and other different types of mages with abilities like being able to communicate with animals. I can’t remember the last time I did an individual book review. ![]() ![]() It is a guilty pleasure beach read, just like the rest of Dessen’s novels, and I loved every page of it. However, I was able to get a copy of The Moon and More, Dessen’s second most recent novel. I haven’t been able to get my hands on a copy of Saint Anything yet, but I’m sure that will be my beach book of the summer. I devoured Dessen novel after Dessen novel during this period of my life, so when I found out her new novel, Saint Anything, was released this April, a wave of nostalgia washed over me the way waves crash on the beach in the town of Colby. Calories didn’t exist and my world only extended as far as my bike would carry me it was a simpler time. Much like Jonas Brothers concerts, Delia’s, and vanilla bean Frappuccinos, Sarah Dessen novels belong to those idyllic summers of middle school years, before worrying about college courses, internships, and final exams became the norm. ![]() I must have been living under a rock to have missed the fact that Sarah Dessen released a new novel just weeks ago. ![]() |